It's no surprise, then, that Alienware's newly-speced Area-51 7500 showed the videogame addicts over at IGN some of the best performance they've ever seen, and ran surprisingly quietly while doing so -- thanks in no small part to the liquid-cooling system.

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At the core of the Sub-Zero is a series of TEC peltier coolers that work in conjunction with other high-end liquid cooling components.

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It said some of the gas - which is used in the site's cooling systems - may have turned into liquid as the fire service used water to prevent it dispersing.

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In addition to all this, the Genesis uses liquid cooling around the motherboard, and an air-based system on the video cards.

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